Re: [Bitpim-devel] BitPim Mac Menus

[Adit P. <apa...@ba...>]

On May 3, 2004, at 20:43, Roger Binns wrote:
>
> As far as I know, you just put the key sequence in the string for the 
> menu
> item:
>
>   menu.Append(ID_SAVE, "Save\tCtrl+S")
>
> That will automatically bind Ctrl+S to the menu item.  Is there 
> anything
> you do often enough with the menus to justify an accelerator key?
>

Not really, so I suppose it isn't necessary. Just figured we should 
have an alternate way to do things, if necessary. :) But thanks for the 
tip - I will keep that in mind for future projects.

> Given a list of column headers, you can call phonebook.getdata
> to get the relevant field.
>
> For example:
>
>    phonebook.getdata("Cell2", entry, "")
>    phonebook.getdata("Name", entry, "")
>
> The full list of column names is phonebook.AvailableColumns.
>
> I would expect the exporting UI to look similar to the importing
> UI.  You should be able to select one of the predefined column
> types (Palm Desktop, Mozilla etc) or define your own and the
> order they go in.
>
> The columns offered should be 
> importexport.ImportCSVDialog.possiblecolumns.
> You will need a mapping table between those names and the ones used
> by BitPim in the phonebook module.
>
> Roger

Actually I already finished the parsing of the phonebook. I did use the 
phonebook.getdata() function, but I ended up finding a way to just go 
through the whole dict and get what I needed out of it. It works, but 
if it is unacceptable, I can change it.

Right now, I am using hard-coded Mozilla address-book columns to 
export, and it works (currently it just prints to the console, but that 
output imports perfectly into Mozilla Thunderbird). I just have to 
write the code to output the CSV to a file. Other than that, the only 
remaining thing to do is write the gui and put in user-defined options 
as you listed above. If you want, I can attach the stuff I have done, 
so if anyone wants to test the parsing routines. I guess I'll do that 
when I have it able to save to a file.

Adit